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 Bizman to Tinubu: Thanks for re-opening Port-Harcourt Refinery A Niger Delta based entrepreneur, Mr. Richard Akinaka, has commended President Bola Tinubu over the timely and successful re-opening of the Port Harcourt Petroleum Refinery. According to Akinaka, who is the founder of Abitto Global Services limited, an oil and gas service provider,   the re-opening of the refinery will have major and significant impact on Nigeria’s oil production and economy. Akinaka, who is voted as one of the outstanding Young Entrepreneurs from the Niger Delta region, made the commendation while addressing newsmen in Yenagoa. He said the revamping and commencement of production by the refinery would help reduce the pressure on the nation’s currency and inflow of forex. He added that it was also an advantage to the pursuit of Nigeria’s zero petroleum oil product import. Akinaka further commended Port Harcourt Refinery management, led by Mr Ibrahim Onaja, and Technomont, the contractors,...

Tinubu's wife launches elderly support scheme in Lagos The First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu on Thursday launched the Renewed Hope Initiative Elderly Support Scheme (RHIESS) poised to support vulnerable elderly citizens aged 65 and above in all 36 states of the federation during this festive period. Tinubu, at the maiden edition of the Renewed Hope Initiative Elders Support Scheme (RHIESS), in Lagos, held at Lagos House, Ikeja, noted that the initiative themed, “Better Days Ahead” is an economic empowerment programme for the well-being of elderly citizens across the country. The First lady of Lagos State, Dr. Claudiana Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu who presented the cash and gift items to the beneficiaries on behalf of Senator Tinubu, said that the gesture marked a significant stride in the government’s collective pursuit of a more inclusive and compassionate society. She emphasized that over 250 beneficiaries selected from all the 20 Local Government Areas, LGAs and 37 Local Counc...

Protesters shutdown Rivers Government House, reject terms of Abuja peace meeting • Ask Fubara To Ignore Resolutions • Threaten To Lock All State Critical Assets From January 1, 2024 •Tinubu Didn’t Impose His Will On Fubara, Wike — BAT Vanguard Thousands of residents of Rivers State yesterday staged the ‘mother of all protests’ in rejection of the eight-point peace resolution signed by the state Governor, Siminilayi Fubara and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, under the watch of President Bola Tinubu. This is even as the BAT Vanguard has faulted the notion being held in certain quarters that President Tinubu imposed his will on Fubara and Wike. The protesters occupied the Rivers State Government House main gate along Azikiwe Road as early as 7.00am and shut down business activities across some parts of Port Harcourt metropolis. The protesters comprised Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), Hausa community, Students’ Union, elder statesmen and other sstakeholders....

FG’s 50% Christmas Transport Largesse, Another Spin To Curry Media Favour –Obi   The candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 presidential election Mr. Peter Obi, said that the 50 percent slash in the price of interstate transport fare for Nigerians traveling during this yuletide announced by President Bola Tinubu is yet another Federal Government’s spin to curry favour in the media space after appetising the people. Obi in his X-handle platform on Friday, stated that following the announcement he took time to inquire into the implementation mechanics across different cities but was disappointed by the report he got. The former Anambra State governor said he sent out contacts who consulted widely with the transporters in major parks across the country. “In Abuja, they carried out an on-the-spot investigation in Jabi/Utako areas; in Lagos, they visited major parks like Jibowu, Festac, Mile 12, Ajah, and Mazamaza and none of the transporters in these parks was aware of this 50%...

Naira scarcity: Call CBN to order now, TUC tells Tinubu The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, on Friday, told President Bola Tinubu to call the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to order over the scarcity of Nigeria in the country. The TUC said that the unfortunate development has continued to subject Nigerians to needless excruciating hardship by insensitive and heartless agents and agencies of government, whose actions and inactions are really difficult to fathom and impossible to defend. In a statement signed by the TUC President, Comrade Festus Osofo and the Secretary General, Comrade Nuhu Toro, the labour centre said it was amazed that the CBN was finding it extremely difficult to make the currency available to the working people and the citizens. The statement read: “The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria has watched with growing concern, alarm and dismay the sudden, inexplicable, acute scarcity of our currency, the Naira, across the country. “Citizens simply find it difficult to ac...

Rivers elders drag Tinubu, Fubara, INEC, others to court The political crisis in Rivers State has assumed a new twist, as six elders have dragged President Bola Tinubu to the Federal High Court in Abuja, for allegedly compelling Governor Siminilaya Fubara to enter into an unconstitutional agreement. The plaintiffs, led by a member of the Rivers State House of Assembly representing Bonny State Constituency, Victor Jumbo, are Senator Bennett Birabi, Senator Andrew Uchendu, Rear Admiral O. P. Fingesi, Ann Kio Briggs and Emmanuel Deinma. They maintained that the said agreement, which was signed on December 18, was not only illegal but amounted to an usurpation, nullification, and undermining of the extant/binding relevant provisions of the 1999 Constitution, as amended. Consequently, they prayed the court to, among other things, determine whether President Tinubu, Governor Fubara, and the Rivers State Assembly have the rights and are entitled to enter into any agreement that has the effect...

Primate Ayodele releases 2024 prophecies on Akpabio, Ekpa, Kanu, Igboho, Wike, NSA, others The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has reeled out a 91-page prophecies for the year 2024. Primate Ayodele’s 2024 prophecies touched on Nigeria’s economy, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Nigerian Governors’ Forum, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Other areas of the prophecies include Biafra, Simon Ekpa, Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho. He further spoke about the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, National Security Adviser, NSA, Nuhu Ribadu, and Aso Rock. Not left out were predictions on Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, as well as upcoming elections in Edo State and Ondo State. Part of the prophecies below: THE ECONOMY IN NIGERIA The spirit of God says the Nigeria economy needs a lot of prayers for it to be revived. The economic policies and activities need to be well moderated and coordinated in order to achieve desired results. I foresee that under the cur...